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Ding Liren and Gukesh Dommaraju played to a fifth successive draw in Wednesday’s eighth game of their $2.5m world championship showdown in Singapore, leaving the best-of-14-games match all square at 4-all after a rollercoaster contest which saw both players let winning chances slip away in the middlegame.

The 32-year-old reigning …

Ben Stokes has revealed a personal stand-off with the International Cricket Council about over-rate penalties, including his refusal as England captain to sign the relevant post-match paperwork as a protest against the system.

Speaking before the second Test against New Zealand in Wellington, and naming an unchanged England XI as …

The Heisman Trophy is college football’s supreme individual honor, an annual tribute to the best player in the game, and more often than not it’s the country’s top quarterback who takes the prize. But this could be the year Colorado’s Travis Hunter breaks with tradition.

Hunter is college football’s mind-warping …

This season is the best of times and the worst of times to institute a 12-team playoff in the top tier of college football.

It’s the best of times because the results so far have yielded a muddled picture in which picking just four teams would have been extraordinarily difficult, …

Paul Dickenson, who has died aged 74, worked as a BBC commentator for more than 20 years and was associated with some of the greatest moments in British athletics history.

It was Dickenson who was commentating when the triple jumper

Jonathan Edwards broke the world record

‘It’s a good question,” Emma Finucane says as she thinks searchingly of the most important lesson she has learned about herself after a year like no other for the 21-year-old sprint cyclist. She

won three Olympic medals

Nearly six years ago the 15-year-old Jacob Bethell was given the Gray Nicolls Young Cricketer of the Year award and I sat next to him at lunch after the presentation. I have been aware of his background and looked out for his name since then, though I did not have …

Indian teenager Gukesh Dommaraju came dangerously close to scoring a decisive result in Tuesday’s seventh game of his world championship match against Ding Liren only to allow his opponent off the hook, leaving the best-of-14-games match no closer to resolution in a 3½-all deadlock.

“The score is fine,” Gukesh said …

John Harris raises some important issues in his article (

Labour’s big relaunch won’t solve its biggest problem: this government doesn’t speak human, 1 December

Brant Dunshea, the British Horseracing Authority’s chief regulatory officer, will take over as the Authority’s “acting” chief executive from 1 January as the search for a permanent replacement for Julie Harrington, the CEO since January 2021, continues, the sport’s governing body said on Tuesday.

Dunshea has been closely associated with …